Thursday, November 8, 2012

Intuition! Rockman is Downright Zany

Oh man. I've been looking for footage of this one for a while. This, my friends, is Intuition! Rockman. Released exclusively in Japan in 2008, this mobile-phone game is obscure in every sense of the word.

In short, Intuition! Rockman is essentially WarioWare starring the Blue Bomber and friends; a collection of quirky mini-games wherein you perform strange tasks. The game is predominately controlled via motion. In other words, it only works on cell phones that have an accelerometer. Because of that, its install base was pretty small. It's virtually unknown in many fan circles.

Much like WarioWare, there's also a subtle overarching story that ties all these unusual mini-games together. The Mega Man Network writes, "The story of the game has Dr. Wily finishing his next latest invention
which will assuredly win him the world. But as if on cue, Mega Man drops
in to stop him. However, he proves to be no match for Wily’s machine,
which is impervious to any of Mega Man’s attacks, though Wily himself is
troubled that the machine doesn’t actually do anything. Roll comes in
with a message from Dr. Light suggesting to shake the machine if attacks
don’t work. Angered, Dr. Wily traps Roll in his machine to power it up
even more."

Just how nutty are these mini-games, you ask? Oh gee, I dunno... how does guiding Fire Man to ski down a birthday cake sound? Yeah. Strange stuff. You'll see plenty more in the above 18-minute video. Enjoy!

This looks really fun, even though I guess it's pretty short. It'd be nice to see it localized and brought to more than cell phones/ianything, maybe bundled with some other obscure Megaman games, but I guess this is just another "disposable" cell game to them, just like Phantom and Legend of Network. Thanks for sharing the video Protodude.